{"id":2011,"date":"2020-02-03T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2020-02-03T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:37:12","slug":"ive-got-a-reading-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve got a reading spot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>on the second floor, a single room just up in the troposphere. The wind starts prowling when you&#8217;re forty feet high, reclining at chimney pot altitude. It curls in around the roofline and finds whistle-runs, moaning and humming, a constant choir. The sound of motorbikes racing the ring road is my Gorky wolf cry. Night trains judder the Meadow-side track and the Brize Norton transport&#8217;s cloud-wanderings over the town add extra howls. But these restless purrings are a fine backdrop to my page-turning, strange and muted enough to go unnoticed if the text is worth its ink. I slip back into my green pool of light, free for a few hours of this city of walls, traders, grant grapsers and knowledge chasers, all its lost causes.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the second floor, a single room just up in the troposphere. The wind starts prowling when you&#8217;re forty feet high, reclining at chimney pot altitude. It curls in around the roofline and finds whistle-runs, moaning and humming, a constant choir. The sound of motorbikes racing the ring road is my Gorky wolf cry. Night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}